Air Peace pledges expansion, commends customers, staff

Air Peace Limited has pledged to end the air travel woes of most underserved destinations in Nigeria and the African West Coast and offer its customers a preferred alternative on some key international routes in 2018.

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, gave the assurance at its end-of-year management session held on December 27 in Lagos to review the airline’s flight operations in the outgoing year.

Commenting on its operations in 2017, Onyema insisted that the airline deserved commendation for rescuing the Nigerian aviation industry and giving air travellers hope in the period under review.

He said he was quite satisfied that Air Peace was able to expand its fleet to 24 aircraft despite the economic downturn in the country and what the aviation sector experienced in 2017.

He attributed the airline’s success in the three years of its existence to the unflinching support of the flying public and the quality leadership of its management team.

Onyema said the airline would remain grateful to its customers for their patronage over the years, urging the flying public to continue to trust the carrier’s services. Air Peace, he assured, would continue to strive to sustain its uncompromising approach to safety, prioritisation of the comfort of its customers and job creation.

The airline, Onyema said, still had a lot of grounds to cover in its vision to transform air travel experience in Nigeria, the African West Coast and the Dubai, Guangzhou-China, London, Houston, Mumbai and Johannesburg routes.

He charged the carrier’s management to brace up for the challenge of implementing the airline’s plan to deepen air connectivity on many routes in the North of Nigeria, including Kano and Yola and other domestic routes.

He regretted that industrial unrest by Air Traffic Control in Senegal compelled it to suspend the launch of its Freetown, Banjul and Dakar routes planned for December 15, 2017.

Onyema, however, assured that the carrier would soon announce a new date for the launch of the three suspended West Coast routes.

He said the airline, which commenced flight operations to Accra-Ghana on February 16, 2017, was determined to expand to about nine destinations on the West Coast of Africa.

The airline, he added, was awaiting the delivery of the two Boeing 777 it recently acquired to start its flight operations to Dubai, Guangzhou, London, Houston, Mumbai and Johannesburg.